tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28855039.post7195835042013728613..comments2024-03-21T19:12:11.065-07:00Comments on Every Day Is Like Wednesday: Hey, look at me! I'm a pundit!Calebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01391759187396994380noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28855039.post-12518324958475311822013-08-14T12:52:24.662-07:002013-08-14T12:52:24.662-07:00DC has been doing a pretty spectacular job lately....DC has been doing a pretty spectacular job lately...of screwing things up! Could they possibly BE more incompetent? <br /><br />Between misspelling their female creators names, making them sound like men, to the DC Villains covers debacle to FIRING Kevin Maguire...which is the ultimate idiocy in my book, they have been just outdoing themselves lately when it comes to screwing things up.<br /><br />And Millar...well, he's just a twit.SallyPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05592635194271250605noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28855039.post-45147916515826837532013-08-13T21:17:20.112-07:002013-08-13T21:17:20.112-07:00Kind of hard to know which way to jump in this Vil...<i>Kind of hard to know which way to jump in this Villains Month thing. ...Begins to sound more and more like a situation where the casual reader ought wait six months till the dust clears and all of these issues inevitably go up for a $0.99 digital sale, right?</i><br /><br />Oof. I actually wondered about that while reading the solicitations. I assumed MOST of the books would be collected with their parent titles or, in the case of that "Dial E" book, their "true" parent titles, and that some might be collected into their own trades (Like, there are enough Bat-villain specials for a trade or three dedicated just to those).<br /><br />I guess there are some that might not fit in their parent titles (the Cheetah book will be super-out-of-place in a Wonder Woman trade, for example), and does a Lobo one-shot REALLY have anything to do with Justice League...?<br /><br />Hmm...Calebhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01391759187396994380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28855039.post-71939499837826124042013-08-13T21:14:06.685-07:002013-08-13T21:14:06.685-07:00Mordicai,
I shop at Comic Heaven in Willoughby. T...Mordicai,<br /><br />I shop at Comic Heaven in Willoughby. There's currently a shop in the Great Lakes Mall in Mentor, and another, tiny one up north near the Lake, the name of which I can't remember. That might be Capp's, or might not. I heard there was a comic shop that has since closed in the past decade or so...maybe that was Capp's....? <br /><br /><br />Nick,<br /><br />Oh, I got the "by decade's end" part, I just don't know how accurate a gauge that is. Just because Millar has had the rights optioned or has some of those films in some form of development doesn't actually mean they'll all get made though, nor does it mean there won't be more OTHER movies made (like, three more Ninja Turtles movies, maybe, or a handful of Ellis or Morrison films, or a few more Frank Miller movies to push him over the top). <br /><br />You have a good point about book sales and long-term sales value, but, again, that requires a bunch of qualifiers that aren't there. Like, maybe Millar and Kirkman have done really well in selling trades over the past few years, but is Millar now bigger by that metric than Frank Miller or Alan Moore? Or Masashi Kishimoto or Eiichiro Oda? <br /><br />Basically, the writer just made a statement that doesn't stand by itself, and needs some qualifiers in order to ring true...WITH 'em, it could ring true, of course, but he just sort of asserts Millar's biggest stardom based on...I don't know what, really, the assertion...?<br /><br />Rev,<br /><br />Having not watched LOST and not read Jupiter's Legacy, I am the least qualified person in the world to speak to that, although I suppose I'll check out the latter when I see it in a library some day. Calebhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01391759187396994380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28855039.post-40864641188411969732013-08-13T15:21:30.132-07:002013-08-13T15:21:30.132-07:00The Millar plagiarism segment overlooks the brazen...The Millar plagiarism segment overlooks the brazen lifting of story elements & dialogue from the (admittedly cumbersome, spot-the-reference-heavy, cut & paste plotted) LOST for the intro of 'Jupiter's Legacy'.<br /><br />I've no idea if any further LOST material has been sublimated in subsequent issues as I tried, really tried to fake interest in the first ish but blech.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28855039.post-4131812978642209812013-08-13T11:06:04.478-07:002013-08-13T11:06:04.478-07:00forget the unfunnies someone needs to take him to ...forget the unfunnies someone needs to take him to task for Sam slade robohunter in the nineties where he took a fun and quirky tale about a robot hunting detective and turned him into a 90s fame seeking super violent attention whore.<br /><br />basically the ultimates years before the ultimates....but worseDavid pagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14120693580102798706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28855039.post-34016607462744954762013-08-13T08:15:04.147-07:002013-08-13T08:15:04.147-07:00"I wish I knew that was going to be an option..."I wish I knew that was going to be an option originally ... $3.99 is more than I'm willing to pay for 20-22 pages worth of comics ... and anything that costs that much I'll just wait for the trade ... So I sort of already wrote 52 books of DC's publishing slate in September off, not even considering purchasing any of the books."<br /><br />Kind of hard to know which way to jump in this Villains Month thing. I'd be disinclined to spend $3.99 for one of these issues, too, but Dan DiDio recently announced via Twitter that not all of the Villains Month issues will actually be collected, short of the massive omnibus collection (<a href="https://twitter.com/dandidio1/statuses/365236525832744961" rel="nofollow">see-for-yourself Twitter link</a> and then <a href="http://collectededitions.blogspot.com/2013/08/dan-didio-not-all-dc-villains-month-titles-to-be-collected.html" rel="nofollow">my commentary</a>). Begins to sound more and more like a situation where the casual reader ought wait six months till the dust clears and all of these issues inevitably go up for a $0.99 digital sale, right?collectededitionshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14698269790653953645noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28855039.post-9637586202519688772013-08-13T07:53:47.261-07:002013-08-13T07:53:47.261-07:00Villains Month is a mess, Millar is clearly CAUSIN...Villains Month is a mess, Millar is clearly CAUSING a mess in that he makes comics look like they make light of rape (which sometimes it seems they do "thanks" to Millar and some other writers), and lastly comics in general is a mess. Comics always have been though, a glorious, confusing mess that I put up with because every so often the horrendous monstrosity known as the comic-book industry releases a really good comic that makes me think, feel, and otherwise feel alive. It just sucks those kind of comics feel rarer and rarer.David Charles Bitterbaumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00112993605550278929noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28855039.post-43393746861153938722013-08-13T07:41:33.397-07:002013-08-13T07:41:33.397-07:00Give `em Hell, Caleb.Give `em Hell, Caleb.Aki Alaraatikkahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11432612143247843259noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28855039.post-74834651213662361322013-08-13T06:58:06.190-07:002013-08-13T06:58:06.190-07:00Couple things on Millar:
I think you misread the...Couple things on Millar: <br /><br />I think you misread the quote. By the end of the decade Millar WILL have more movie adaptations than most other creators because of Superior, Nemesis, Secret Service and (probably) KickAss 3 and Nemesis 2. I think you may have overlooked the "end of the decade" part of the statement. (Also the writer may be ignoring Bob Kane in the list of creators, but I digress.)<br /><br />Secondly, it's hard to argue from a publishing standpoint that he's anything but one of the top two writers in comics just by looking at actual BOOK sales. The only titles Marvel can keep on a bestseller list are from Millar. Generally, only Robert Kirkman has more books pop up on that list and those are all different volumes of Walking Dead. <br /><br />Continued resale is probably a better indicator of continued popularity than any monthly sales of any kind, especially when you're talking about a writer that everyone knows they will be able to get his book in trade. <br /><br />Nicholas Ahlhelmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05651416360488414615noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28855039.post-59157695943315265382013-08-13T05:08:48.311-07:002013-08-13T05:08:48.311-07:00Ha ha ha ha ha I grew up in that town. Sorry, thi...Ha ha ha ha ha I grew up in that town. Sorry, this post ruled, but I fixated on that part of it. Where were you talking about buying a comic shop? Capp's Comics, that was where I got my...well, comics, but also anime vhs tapes & roleplaying books...mordicaihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05713766652793265867noreply@blogger.com